On May 31, Nordic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anu Tali will give a concert entitled Meeting place – Estonia at Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn. The program consists of Cello Concerto No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich (soloist David Geringas, Germany), Double Concerto Noesis by Erkki-Sven Tüür (violin – Carolin Widmann, Germany, clarinet – Jörg Widmann, Germany) and Rhapsody for Paganini Theme by Sergei Rachmaninov (piano – Marko Martin). Tüür’s Noesis concert-performance will be recorded by German record company ECM.
Anu Tali (1972) has studied conducting with Jorma Panula (Finland) and Ilya Musin (Russia). In 1997, she an her sister Kadri Tali founded Nordic Symphony Orchestra (originally the Estonian-Finnish Symphony Orchestra) to develop cultural contacts between Estonia and Finland and to involve musicians from all over the world. There are musicians from about 15 countries and they perform together five times a year. With orchestra she has released two CDs: „Swan Flight“ (2002, Finlandia/Warner Classics) which earned the German Echo Classic Prize 2003 within the category Young Artist of the Year, and „Action. Passion. Illusion“ (2005, Warner Classics). In 2004, Anu Tali was also given the Presidential Award of Estonia.
Anu Tali has conducted such orchestras as Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Moscow Symphony Orchestra and many others.
Agnes Toomla